Thread Creation and Termination

Introduction

A virtual device uses the services described in this section to create and destroy threads in the system virtual machine. Also, a virtual device receives the following messages when creating or destroying threads in the system VM:

Message

Description

Create_Thread

A new thread is being created.

Destroy_Thread

A non-initial thread is about to be destroyed

Terminate_Thread

A non-initial thread is about to terminate.

Thread_Not_Executeable

A non-initial thread has stopped executing.

Thread_Init

A new thread was created.


For a description of these messages, see VMM Messages.

See also Create_Thread, Destroy_Thread, Terminate_Thread, Thread_Not_Executeable, Thread_Init